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Various issues may occur on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running the Volume Shadow Copy Service

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KB Article: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/940032

 

INTRODUCTION

On a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), you experience one of the following symptoms:

· When you perform a backup operation by using the NTBackup tool, the following event is logged in the Application log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: NTBackup
Event ID: 8019
Description: End Operation: Warnings or errors were encountered. Consult the backup report for more details.

Note If you view the backup log file, the following information is displayed:

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0xffffffff

· If you access the properties of a volume and then click Shadow Copies, you receive one of the following error messages:

Error 0x8004230F: The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation.

Error 0x80004002: No such interface supported

· One of the following events is logged in the Application log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 20
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy Service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {faf53cc4-bd73-4e36-83f1-2b23f46e513e} and Name VSSEvent is [0x80040154].

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 20
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy Service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {faf53cc4-bd73-4e36-83f1-2b23f46e513e} and Name VSSEvent is [0x80004002].

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 8193
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8193
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80004002.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event ID: 12302
Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An internal inconsistency was detected in trying to contact shadow copy service writers. Please check to see that the Event Service and Volume Shadow Copy Service are operating properly.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2011
    In this case, we can check if any third party shadow copy provider is present on machine. If yes, then we can try to disable or remove it. This can be done as given below:
  1. Browse to registry location "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesVSS" and  take the backup of VV key
  2. Under this key, we can see two providers : Microsoft and another should be third party
  3. Third party provider's GUID can be confirmed in command "vssadmin list providers" Reboot the machine and run backup ... it should be fine.
  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2012
    having followed the articles, and checked the registry ( only the one provider listed ) still seeing same errors Backup Status Operation: Backup Active backup destination: 4mm DDS Media name: "Media created 09/08/2012 at 09:41" Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1. Timeout before function completed Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0xffffffff. Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:ffffffff Aborting Backup. but no VSS errors in the eventlog event ID 8019, backup failed is the only logged error any ideas?